UNIT – I Lesson 1 HRM – AN OVERVIEW Lesson Outline Nature of ...

• Works committees, which are meant for promoting measures for securing and
preserving amity and good relations between workers and management. A
works committee comments upon matters of common interest and attempts to
settle any material difference of opinion between the two parties..
• Joint – councils of workers and management may decide the issues on which
interests of management and workers are identical, e.g., Accident prevention
and safety measures, determination of production standards, workers training,
welfare measures etc.
• Information sharing in which workers are told about certain aspects of the
company, e.g., plans for expansion, financial position of the company, etc.
• Employees director, i.e., an elected representative of the (employee’s or)
workers is one of the board of directors.
5) Individually workers can participate in management through
JOB ENLARGEMENT AND JOB ENRICHMENT
Job enlargement means expanding the job –content – adding task elements horizontally.
Job enrichment means that additional motivators are added to the job so that it is more
rewarding. The purpose of job enlargement and job enrichment is to relieve the boredom
of the worker, which flows from excessive specialization in mass- production industries so
that the job itself may be source of self-satisfaction. Job enlargement and job enrichment
do provided for worker’s participation because they offer freedom and scope to them to
use their judgment.
SUGGESTION SCHEMES
Employee’s view on such matters as machine utilization, waste management energy
conservation and safety measures are invited, and reward is given for the best suggestion.
This procedure enables the management to arouse and maintain the employee’s interests in
the problems of their concern and its management. The suggestion schemes are
increasingly used by progressive management.
II Informal Participation
It is more typically at work-group level, where the foreman develops the opportunity for
the group of workers to take part in a problem-solving or decision-making process.
Typically, the matters on which decisions are taken are those within the prerogatives of the
foreman or supervisor.